It's great making friends from Slovenia :)

The plan was to spend 3 nights in Venice. But, we ended out grabbing an afternoon train to Ljubljana today to meet up with a friend (Tina) we met while we were in Sevilla about a month ago. She picked us up from the train station today and we'll be here for a couple nights. Yippee!

But let me back up a day. Yesterday (and the afternoon before yesterday) we were in Venice and absoutely LOVED it there! Both of us had heard lots of rumors from fellow travelers about the city being overcrowded, smelly, and very overpriced. I don't know if we just officially passed up smelly tourist season, but the city was extremely pleasant and actually one of the cheaper places we have been. Venice has been my favorite city by far. But, we wondred...what's with the Italians always building towers that lean....?

It is so fun to walk down the streets along all the canals, filled with water taxis and gondolas. There are absoutely no cars around and it seems that little canals meet at the end of every alley. It felt like we were walking around the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland the whole day. We visited a farmer's market this morning where we filled up on fresh produce and we went back to St. Mark's square for the second time.

St. Mark's was really fun to walk through. Brent had fun running through the crowds of pigeons that fill up the square. :) The birds are so used to people, though, that they hardly even moved when Brent ran through the cluster!


We also saw a woman doing glass blowing in one of the Murano glass shops. It's such an interesting art to observe. Makes us really appreciate the huge, intricate pieces of Murano pieces that we see in all the fancy stores.

Tomorrow is Lake Bled and discovering Ljubljana with the locals. Yay!